Ineffective Theory

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2024

A note on macro performance in Julia 27 Feb 2024
One-paragraph book reviews 25 Feb 2024

2023

(Weakly) Against scientific taste 12 Nov 2023
Alex Wellerstein's Restricted Data 10 Sep 2023
Links for August 2023 31 Aug 2023
Easily repeated claims are less likely to be true 10 Aug 2023
Thoughts adjacent to the "Proximal Origins" fallout 29 Jul 2023
Links for July 2023 28 Jul 2023
Links for June 2023 30 Jun 2023
My Marginal Hour 13 Jun 2023
Links for May 2023 31 May 2023
Microcausal and macrocausal explanations 8 May 2023
Links for April 2023 30 Apr 2023
Links for March 2023 30 Mar 2023
Links for February 2023 28 Feb 2023
jax: Initialize an array from a function 28 Jan 2023
Links for January 2023 27 Jan 2023

2022

Links for December 2022 27 Dec 2022
Links for November 2022 27 Nov 2022
Links for October 2022 28 Oct 2022
Links for September 2022 27 Sep 2022
Links for August 2022 27 Aug 2022
Links for July 2022 27 Jul 2022
Automating arbitrage on Manifold markets 28 Jun 2022
Links for June 2022 27 Jun 2022
Circumscribe expertise (and maybe talk to the police) 19 Jun 2022
Links for May 2022 27 May 2022
Overestimating the Zero-Point Energy 30 Apr 2022
When Luck Isn't 29 Apr 2022
Links for April 2022 25 Apr 2022
A Galactic Simulation of Planck-Scale Physics 14 Apr 2022
Links for March 2022 27 Mar 2022
Epistemic Orders of Magnitude 11 Mar 2022
Cheap Data! 8 Mar 2022
Against Sanctioning Researchers 3 Mar 2022
Emergent Hypocrisy 2 Mar 2022
A Sudden Change of Environment 27 Feb 2022
Links for February 2022 26 Feb 2022
Expository content is underrated 21 Feb 2022
The Majority are a Majority 11 Feb 2022
Links for January 2022 26 Jan 2022
Git Steganography 21 Jan 2022

2021

Links for December 2021 27 Dec 2021
Monkeys, Typewriters, and Black Holes 19 Dec 2021
Statistical Lies II: A Secret Survey 11 Dec 2021
Spitznagel's "Safe Haven", Briefly 10 Dec 2021
Links for November 2021 27 Nov 2021
Links for October 2021 27 Oct 2021
The sign problem is not caused by rapid oscillations 20 Oct 2021
The Spectral Density Function of a Correlator 14 Oct 2021
Links for September 2021 26 Sep 2021
Molecular Dynamics In Your Browser! 25 Sep 2021
Evolutionary Pressure on Weddings 14 Sep 2021
Links: Negativity Bias Redux 12 Sep 2021
Links for August 2021 24 Aug 2021
Links for July 2021 29 Jul 2021
Notes on Quantum Error Correction 22 Jul 2021
Do cosmic rays cause domain name bit-flips? 6 Jul 2021
Links for June 2021 28 Jun 2021
Links for May 2021 27 May 2021
Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth 11 May 2021
Trivia From Medema's "Economics Book" 8 May 2021
Links for April 2021 27 Apr 2021
Mutual Subgroups 11 Apr 2021
Links for March 2021 27 Mar 2021
All Hail the Social Mobility Index 24 Mar 2021
Links for February 2021 27 Feb 2021
The Legendre Transform and the Path Integral 23 Feb 2021
Quantum Ensembles 20 Feb 2021
A Puzzle: Gauge Theory on a Quantum Computer 10 Feb 2021
Illegible Incentives Matter 6 Feb 2021
Links for January 2021 27 Jan 2021
Quantifying the Influence of the Opening on Pawn Structure 24 Jan 2021

2020

Links for December 2020 26 Dec 2020
Lies That (Probably) Don't Matter 19 Dec 2020
Harmonic Oscillator Weirdness 17 Dec 2020
Is the Great Stagnation just a narrative? 15 Dec 2020
Links for November 2020 26 Nov 2020
To Petition the Government 15 Nov 2020
Magnetism and Congress 14 Nov 2020
Poor Phrasing as a Shibboleth 11 Nov 2020
An Introduction to the Sign Problem 7 Nov 2020
Observing Wavefunctions 27 Oct 2020
Links for October 2020 25 Oct 2020
Fluctuations and Phases 10 Oct 2020
Links for September 2020 26 Sep 2020
Why privilege closed-form expressions? 25 Sep 2020
What do commutators have to do with causality? 22 Sep 2020
The Weakness of Anthropic Arguments 10 Sep 2020
Henry V's Fallacy 5 Sep 2020
Links for August 2020 29 Aug 2020
The Kolakoski Sequence and the Central Limit Theorem 3 Aug 2020
Statistical Lies I: Coronavirus 27 Jul 2020
Links for July 2020 23 Jul 2020
First Astrophotography: Neowise 20 Jul 2020

2013

Nothing to Hide: Why Privacy Matters 1 Feb 2013